Whoa, we have some serious rain and lightning outside right now.
(Hey Googlers, come over to my entry from three years later: Lightning Over DC, for photos and video.)
Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla 1.0 has arrived. I just downloaded and installed it, and the browser works great. Certain CSS properties which were still unsupported as of 1.0rc3 are now supported (most notably the overflow: scroll property), and the whole system runs fine, without kinks or bugs. (Not as far as I can tell, anyway.)
What’s not so great is the mail application, which in some ways still works like the Netscape Mail of old. Most annoying is that it doesn’t give an option to qeue messages by default and send them later. (You can use the “Send Later” function and then select “Send Unsent” from the File menu, but that’s still less convenient than just setting an option to make it a default. There aren’t even keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process.
(But then again, that’s why this is an open-source project, isn’t it?)
Mister T Burt Reynolds Richard Dean Anderson Alf
Last night, I saw the following TV personalities: Mister T, Burt Reynolds, Richard Dean Anderson, and Alf, all within minutes of each other.
That can mean only one thing: the 80’s really are returning. Doom! (All we need now is David Hasselhoff, Gary Coleman, and KITT.)
No Nobility in the Philippine Senate
“We’d like to see a little more nobility in the Senate. But they all seem to have come from college fraternities and sororities — and they still act that way.” – Soliven
Vivaldi Gloria Scarlatti Dixit
Best recording of Vivaldi’s Gloria and A. Scarlatti’s Dixit Dominus. Ever. Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert are clean, lively, and crisp, and Nancy Argenta is one of my favorite sopranos. The Dixit Dominus (a choral setting of Psalm 110) is one of A. Scarlatti’s more obscure works, and is a shining gem of the early baroque. Lovely.
Philippines Senate Coup
Senate “Coup?” Pah. Let them. It’s not like either side was getting anything done. The opposition can make all the obstructionist power plays it wants, but no matter how you shuffle the labels of “majority” and “minority,” Filipino political stagnation continues regardless of who is in power. Until a cultural paradigm shift is enabled, the grimy wheels of government will remain at a standstill.
Silvia Otte Photos of Washington DC
Beautiful photos of Washington DC by Silvia Otte. She takes images of memorials and landmarks commonplace to every Washingtonian, and refreshes them with deep, rich colors and expansive wide-angle shots. This photo of the Dupont Circle Metro station (right) is perfect; that’s exactly what it looks like from the bottom of the well. It’s so deep down, and the escalator is so long, that our pastor calls it the “Jacob’s Ladder” Metro station.
Also be sure to check the other photographers across the top of the page.
Useful Blogger Tools
Blogging Accessories: I’m not planning on downloading or subscribing to any of them, but you bloggers out there might find them useful or interesting:
BlogRolling: Remote service which maintains your list of blog links so you don’t have to worry about the HTML. Generates code for you to cut and paste into your Blogger template.
Posterchild: PHP-based inline commenting system, similar to BlogKomm. Server-side only, so Blogspot bloggers can’t use it. DotComments is still around if you want to use that. (Also server-side.)
pMachine: PHP/MySQL blogging engine. Lots of features.
Hivelogic Email Encoder: Protect your email address from spamming and harvesters by translating it into character entities hidden in javascript document.write commands.
Amorous Dolphin
Watch out, British swimmers: horny dolphin in the water! If there are any parties interested in reciprocal advances, it’s strongly advised that you read this important Dolphin Mating info first. (some explicit content)
(Hmmm, wasn’t this an episode of King of the Hill?)